Type:

Parthian Class

Pennant No.:

36.P
36.N
N.36

Laid Down:

2nd July 1928.

Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness.

Commissioned:

15th April 1930.

Not known at present.

Commander:

Oct. 1930 - Nov. 1932

Lt. Cdr. G.A.W. Voelker.

Nov. 1932 - Jan. 1935

Lt. Cdr. G.P. Claridge.

Jan. 1935 - Feb. 1937

Lt. Cdr. W.E. Banks.

Apr. 1937 - 1939

Lt. Cdr. P.Q. Roberts.

May - Aug. 1939

Lt. Cdr. P. J. H. Bartlett.

Apr. 1940 - Aug. 1941

Lt. Cdr. P. J. H. Bartlett.

Aug. - Dec. 1941

Lt. Cdr. E. F. C. Nicolay DSO.

Complement:

56

5 Officers and 51 Ratings.

Service Career:

1930.

Portsmouth.

1930 - 1939

4th Flotilla, HMS Medway, Hong Kong.

Sept. 1939

4th Flotilla, HMS Medway, (Detached, Refit Hong Kong).

Nov 1939 - 1940

4th Flotilla, HMS Medway, Singapore.

1940-1941

1st Flotilla, HMS Medway, Alexandria.

Fate:

Completed twelve 'War Patrols', she was lost on her thirteenth patrol.

March 1940 - Patrolling Sunda Strait observing German shipping in the Dutch East Indies harbours.

1940-1941 - Sinks two ships of some 6,000 tons.

Lost, 6th December 1941 off the approaches to the Gulf of Corinth.

Struck a mine on the starboard side forward and dived to the bottom, one survivor (Leading Stoker Capes).

The wreck of Perseus has since been found and his story corroborated.

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